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You Can Charge Women More, but Should You?

Harvard Business Review

While I’ve long trumpeted pricing as an underutilized profit lever at companies, being aware of the implications of offering different prices to different market segments is important. In this sense, pricing is more than profit.

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What Small Business Can Learn from Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Haier USA knows it can win trade customers more easily than end-consumers, so uses a 'push' rather than 'pull' go-to-market strategy. Can you use the 'earned media' of public relations as much as HTC and Lenovo do, and the 'co-branding quality rub-off' from highly-respected brand alliance partners, as Haier and WIPRO do?

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Does Your Company Come Across as Too Male?

Harvard Business Review

After all, Red Bull and P&G were strategically going after a market segment they had chosen to focus on. Does it talk to everyone or does it skew one way or the other? If it does skew in one direction, is that intentional? Or is it unconscious?